You might have heard of the “Winter of Discontent.” You might associate that with Shakespeare or the winter of 78-79 in England. However it is “Summer” that is the thorn in Trump’s backside.

Summer Zervos is the woman who has sued Trump. She is a former contestant on “The Apprentice.” Summer accused President Trump of groping her in 2007. Summer asserted her claims of harassment before the presidential election, in October of 2016. Trump denied the claims and called Zervos a “LIAR”.

Calling Zervos a liar was a really stupid move on the part of Trump. The statute of limitation would likely bar any claim by Zervos against Trump for groping her. However calling Summer a “liar” gave rise to a new claim for defamation, if the claims of Zervos were true. Gloria Allred has made a name for herself defending women who’ve been harassed by famous men. She is representing Summer in her defamation suit. Now the issue of the truth of the allegations is relevant in a defamation suit against. Even Trump, as the President of the United States, is not above the law. The suit was filed before his inauguration. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in the case of Jones v. Clinton that no man is above the law, including the President of the United States (for unofficial acts).

Now, Trump is probably wishing that he had issued a retraction. Summer is subpoenaing Trump’s campaign records for any documents on “any woman alleging that Donald J. Trump touched her inappropriately,” BuzzFeed News reported Sunday.

Her subpoena requests “all documents concerning any accusations that were made during Donald J. Trump’s election campaign for president, that he subjected any woman to unwanted sexual touching and/or sexually inappropriate behavior.”

While it is unclear whether the Trump organization will produce or destroy relevant documents, there must surely have been a time when such documents existed. Too many women have accused Trump of inappropriate touching to believe that someone on the campaign wasn’t charged with refuting those allegations.

Certainly the video tape of Trump himself admitting that he could grab or kiss any woman he wanted would be some evidence that the claims were true. If I were a member of the jury, the tape of Trump would be enough to cause me to believe Summer’s allegations rather than Trump’s.

We can assume there were documents about these claims. The real question is whether they still exist and whether the attorneys for Trump will conveniently lose them, or not be able to find them before they are destroyed. Gloria Allred may have asked for the documents as a test to see if the records have been destroyed. She might have a copy of an e-mail that was sent, and this is a test to see if the Trump campaign is destroying records.

Usually the person asking for records would have 30 days to respond, or file objections, and a motion and hearing would be necessary before we’d really know anything. However the clock is ticking!